Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10464785 Neuropsychologia 2013 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
Along with the understanding of the goal of an action (“what” is done) and the intention underlying it (“why” it is done), social interactions largely depend on the appraisal of the action from the dynamics of the movement: “how” it is performed (its “vitality form”). Do individuals with autism, especially children, possess this capacity? Here we show that, unlike typically developing individuals, individuals with autism reveal severe deficits in recognizing vitality forms, and their capacity to appraise them does not improve with age. Deficit in vitality form recognition appears, therefore, to be a newly recognized trait marker of autism.
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